bolt
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bolt sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1blot
- One letter away
- 17belt, boat
What it means
- nouna discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- nouna sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- nounthe part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ow1 l t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: blot.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.